Package: live-config Version: 5.20170112+deb9u1 Severity: important I frequently see Debian Live based systems not starting up correctly with the following error messages in the journal: live-config[863]: /bin/live-config: 154: /bin/live-config: cannot open /tmp/live-config.pipe: No such file live-config[863]: /bin/live-config: 155: /bin/live-config: cannot create /tmp/live-config.pipe: Interrupted system call
Looking at the code and error message it is clearly a race condition between live-config and systemd-tmpfiles-setup. This bug can be fixed by adding "systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service" to the "After=" configuration in live-config.service. The attached patch (against the current version in git) fixes this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages live-config depends on: ii live-config-systemd [live-config-backend] 5.20170112+deb9u1 Versions of packages live-config recommends: ii iproute2 4.9.0-1+deb9u1 ii keyboard-configuration 1.164 ii live-config-doc 5.20170112+deb9u1 ii live-tools 1:20151214+nmu1 ii locales 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii sudo 1.8.19p1-2.1 ii user-setup 1.67 Versions of packages live-config suggests: ii pciutils 1:3.5.2-1 ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u1 -- no debconf information
>From 331b52bd0c2e112327c8effc50d7f7f804afdb71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ronny Standtke <ronny.stand...@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 14:38:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fixed a race condition between live-config and systemd-tmpfiles-setup --- backend/systemd/live-config.systemd | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/backend/systemd/live-config.systemd b/backend/systemd/live-config.systemd index 2b82f45..1092f94 100644 --- a/backend/systemd/live-config.systemd +++ b/backend/systemd/live-config.systemd @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Description=live-config contains the components that configure a live system during the boot process (late userspace). Documentation=man:live-config Before=basic.target -After=local-fs.target +After=local-fs.target systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service DefaultDependencies=no ConditionPathExists=/bin/live-config ConditionKernelCommandLine=boot=live -- 2.11.0
